Labover
Labover is a French biotechnology firm which specializes in laboratory construction.
History
[edit]Labover was established in 1953.[1]
Since 2000, Labover has supplied more than 20 of its BSL3 truck-trailer laboratory units, primarily to French research institutes or to French military hospitals.[2]
In 1994, Labover joined with two other companies to broaden their offer to supply complete turnkey laboratories aimed at the French market.[3] In 1997, the ISO9000 catalogue included autoclaves, furnaces, and furniture, and was targeted to research, institutional and teaching environments.[4]
Sometime prior to October 2003, four tractor-trailer BSL-3 units were sold to the Palestinian Authority.[5]
In October 2004, Labover was the beneficiary of a Franco-Chinese agreement that led to the donation of four of its truck-trailer BSL-3 laboratory units.[6] The contract was worth €3.2m.[5] The devices are contained on a Mercedes-Benz truck chassis within a 40-foot TEU. A second 20-foot TEU holds the electrical power and water purifier unit.[5]
Labover supplied the necessary acetone, ethanol, acetonitrile (HPLC grade) and ethyl acetate to scientists at the IBMM in Montpellier for a 2014 paper.[7]
In a 2019 review article, Zhiming Yuan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China's premier infectious diseases investigations unit (the Wuhan Institute of Virology) mentioned the Labover facilities that were copied and improved over a ten-year period such that the Chinese could now help the government of Sierra Leone with Chinese-standardized mobile units in their battle against Ebola. Yuan said that "the standardization of laboratory biosafety management in China" helped by Labover "provides legal and technical guaranteed on-set operations" and thus was born a Chinese success story that is now sold to the world.[8] Fifteen years after the initial purchase of a handful of Labover mobile units, China had self-constructed over 100 new BSL3 units.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Presentation". Groupe MERIDIS. labover.fr. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ "Microbiological Safety Laboratories BSL2/BSL3". Groupe MERIDIS. labover.fr. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
- ^ "Aménagement de laboratoires: Trois industriels pour un nouveau créneau". Usine Nouvelle. 19 May 1994.
- ^ BOUILLARD, B. (April 1997). "Alliance Laboratoire = Bruchet Labo + Descharmes + Elvetec Services + Labover + Subra + Vasse Industries". Gazette Labo.
- ^ a b c Ramon, Jacques (29 October 2003). "Labover va livrer des laboratoires P3 mobiles à la Chine". Les Echos.
- ^ Gras, Gabriel (1 June 2015). "Analyse: Maladies Infectueuses - Priorité de la coopération scientifique franco-chinoise". Connexions73web. Quand la Chine fait sa revolution. French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China: 28–30.
- ^ Morel-Salmi, Cécile; Julia, Audrey; Vigor, Claire; Vercauteren, Joseph (2014). "A Huge PVDF Adsorption Difference Between Resveratrol and ε-Viniferin Allows to Quantitatively Purify Them and to Assess Their Anti-Tyrosinase Property". Chromatographia. 77 (13–14): 957–961. doi:10.1007/s10337-014-2707-8. PMC 4077311. PMID 25067848.
- ^ Zhiming, Yuan (2019). "Current status and future challenges of high-level biosafety laboratories in China". Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity. 1 (2): 123–127. doi:10.1016/j.jobb.2019.09.005. PMC 7148665. PMID 32501434.
- ^ Demaneuf, Gilles; De Maistre, Rodolphe (2020). "Outlines of a probabilistic evaluation of possible SARS-CoV-2 origins". doi:10.5281/zenodo.4067919.
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